support for immigration reform. >> it's a system that has been broken for way too long. >> so far would allow illegal immigrants to pass a criminal background check, pay a fine and back taxes and learn english. the proposal calls for u.s. borders. >> surveillance capability and detection. no doubt, that if we put the right resources into it, we will be able to have a secure border. >> now the senators -- a guilty verdict in the case against the anne arundel county executive. making his police detail run.

accused of making a staffer from recovering from back surgery. two maryland state delegates want the speed limit raised. up to 70. the maryland transportation authority is considering a bump to 60 miles an hour. all right, now andrea roane is live in new orleans for our blitz and glitz coverage. it's all about super bowl xlvii. hi, andrea. >> hi, derek, how are you? we are here behind the bar at the red fish grill. i have a cold bartender here. you'll hear from him later on. but we want to tell you, media day, if you've never been, it's a zoo. i've been there. kristin fisher was there today. the players have to go. they don't like it because we ask the same questions over and over again. kristin fisher were smart, she'd ask questions that had nothing to do with football. here are the answers.

some great questions, i'm going to try to fight my way through these crowds and get my questions answered. >> if you weren't playing football, what would you be doing? >> i have no idea. >> jambalya. >> gumbo. >> you can ask so many questions on media day, what's your least favorite? >> the thing that always comes up is, do you think they'll stop talking about the whole elite thing. i think that's a goofy question, it's always weird to answer. >> if you could pick the halftime show, who would the act be? >> me. >> and you're going to play in

the game? let me hear something. let me hear it. >> hear what? give me what you got. ♪ [ music ] >> derek, i don't know if i can top kristin fisher, but how about this. i have a blues brother here, i have dan, he is ghost busting everything and he is making drinks and he has come to this town, made a movie here, and dan, you never really left. what keeps you coming back to new orleans?

what do you love about this city? >> i first came when i was 21 years old. i rode the dog over from gainesville on an overnight trip and fell in love with the city ever since. a friend of mine moved over here from canada and he liked the french speaking aspect of it and cajun comes from canadian, so i feel a great affiliation for the city and i come back every year. >> and you are back here right now, crystal, that's your vodka, most people probably didn't know you had an interest in wine. talk about this. it's really pure and what is so special about this? >> allow me to take a bottle over here and show you. >> this is the most special thing about it. >> well, this launched. custom designed bottle from alexander. he just had a show at the american wing of the smithsonian. owns a couple pieces in the

houston museum of fine arts. he is right here mr. john alexander. we will pan over to him. >> we call him rooster. in the bottle with a beautiful clear, wonderful virgin bottle like this, we couldn't put any nonpolluted substance. no citrus oil and no raw sugar. many lesser priced vodkas have these oils to mask the alcohol. we aren't afraid of our alcohol. >> you won't get a bad buzz? >> everything in moderation, but you won't get a hangover. sweet, vanilla crisp. we don't mask the alcohol and we sold almost 4 million bottles. >> what do you recommend for a super bowl drink? >> well, for the ladies, because ladies are the most important component of football. they make the men comfortable. now ladies are also into

contact sports. we have a lot of sports casters that are ladies, and so you know, football and sports has opened up to the female world. a lot of females, more than males perhaps are conscious of dietary points. we'll do a skinny cocktail. a couple of those. what did we have? raspberry. okay, tell me about that drink. because crystal had vodka. 1.5-ounces has 66-calories only. so less than a beer. >> we have 30 seconds. >> we have a little fresh lemonade, fresh mint, keep it local rei. don't have to do much to it. >> i know it would go well with some dishes that j.c. hayward has had. she's going to tell us how she spent her day. >> do i hear my name being called? today, i went to another restaurant that is in the brennan family and the garden district. i'm going to take you there

right now. >> when you come to new orleans and you want the very best, you have to come to the palace. the restaurant is 133 years old and chef torre has been working off and on in this restaurant ever since he was 17 years old. the menu changes, but there's some things that stay on the menu. you can get turtle soup. you can always get that bread pudding souffle and you can always get my favorite, gumbo. and today he's going to make shrimp gumbo for me. >> we have oysters, we'll lay these down. okay. it doesn't have to be really expensive. a quick shot of brandy. >> wow. >> take it up. that's how we do it down here in new orleans. >> uh-huh. >> we'll do to finish this dish, we'll add a little rice. >> everybody loves gumbo with

rice. some rice goes down. that to the side. and the most important thing about gumbo is the rue. >> it's always that dark rue. it gives it that beautiful louisiana flavor. >> oh my goodness. >> what else do you have? you have some okra. >> we have some as a garnish. we don't want to cook our seafood too long here. >> because it will be hard. >> that's right. we'll take a piece of our shrimp down. these are wild caught out of the gulf of mexico. just like they should be. beautiful. red fish there. i tell you what, i love oysters. so salty, so plump and juicy. these are beautiful. >> oh wow. >> and okra is actually -- >> i like okra. >> it is really good. the gumbo is the african word for okra, so it's been around

for a listening time. look at that. simple, fresh louisiana seafood, killer flavor. find the dishes just like this and many more in the commanders palace menu, especially for super bowl. >> can i taste it? >> would you please? >> i have my spoon. let's see how you did it. >> it's quite hot, be careful. >> you know -- it doesn't have to be complicated. >> you don't come for a meal, you come for the experience. now back to you. >> all right, i know this light that dan prepared for will go great with what you just had. very wise. chasing a skinny calorie. that is everybody around the nation that are making their living rooms great for uncles and dads and enjoying the game. >> absolutely. >> because we know ladies rule

the world. it is the best. the drink is the best and we definitely want to thank him because he came to the city six days after the hurricane, created blue line foundation. thank you for what you've done for first responders. we'll be right back after this. . where would we even start? get the car. hi howard. get in. hi, good to see you. start with an actual written offer when selling your car, no strings attached. carmax. start here.

back on wusa9. by an overwelming vote, john kerry to be our next secretary of state. he succeeds hillary clinton who served during the first obama administration. her last day of work is coming friday. well, the kennedy center has been around for 40 years, like a will lot of us, it is expanding. it is $100 million worth of improvements and will make room

for public gardens and outdoor video wall and a performance space right on the river. the expansion will be funded in part by $50 million donation by david. check this out apple lovers. the tech giant is out with a new ipad, 128 gigabytes of memory. nothing else has changed. it goes on sale a week from today. let's take a live look outside. it was wonderful. could tomorrow be better? topper has answers after the break. plus, we head back down to the big easy. more blitz and glitz. more super

you know, you could be excused if you thought it was march or april when you came out your front door. boy was it gorgeous and a lot of people decided to get outside and take in sunshine. photo journalist shot this for us. this this is the georgetown waterfront. top, can you have another one of these? >> we can. the high today was 69. high tomorrow will be pretty close to the same temperature. record high is 70. we might threaten that. record high tomorrow at national, 77. we'll get there. 57 right now. winds out of the south at 8. they will begin to increase. temperature wise, it's fantastic. it's 60 in bethesda. 60 in college park and 59 in waldorf. so, more like april. the average high is about 69 or

70. mainly a dry commute. windy with storms late tomorrow, between about 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. that could affect the late afternoon and evening commute. windy and cold again on thursday. so let's grab some stuff. 69 today. 68 tomorrow. 44 on thursday. only 32 on friday. we may end up with some snow flakes on friday, even a few flakes possible on thursday. the next three days, 9 weather alert will be yellow tomorrow. we're looking at 30-mile per hour wind without storms tomorrow. maybe a flurry west of town on thursday. temperature 34, and a little better chance of snow showers or flurries early on friday. highs only about 32. next seven days, stays cold over the weekend. we're in the mid 30s. maybe a snow flurry saturday night. sunday upper 30s and then low 40s on monday and tuesday. another clipper could give us a little bit of rain or snow.

it does appear that the ground hog will see his shadow on saturday, which means six more weeks of winter. >> everybody, kristen berset here live at the mercedes-benz superdome in new orleans. day two of super bowl week, which means the craziness that is media day has come to an end. it's an afternoon filled of characters and funny stories and thousands of journalists walking around trying to talk to these players. but you know, it's not all craziness, there is some seriousness. a chance for players to look back and reflect on the ride to get to the super bowl. the 2012 season has been a wild roller coaster ride for baltimore that left them sputtering into the playoffs. but long time general manager told us today, the team never lost sight of their final destination. >> yeah, still in mind, and if

you look at what the giants did a year ago and two years ago, you just got to hit it at the right time. >> once we got back to the drawing board, got to executing again, we got right back to being us. >> obviously a lot of highs and lows and i'm thankful for it all. at the end of the day, that's what defines you. in football, that's what defines our team. we've been through a lot to get to this point x but we aren't satisfied with just being here. obviously you want to win it. >> some have called this ravens team a team of destiny. others, like former head coach, brian bellikck gives credit where credit is due. >> i pick the ravens, go back and check. getting healthy at just the right team. that team i saw against dallas was not on the way to win the super bowl. it's a testimony that they recalibrates it, and here they are. >> it's about the other team.

it's about us, and sunday, february 3, it will be about the ravens. >> also during media day, the ravens says something that is lighting up our wusa9 facebook page. when he was asked about fedex field, reid said, for all that money down in d.c., you would think you'd get a better field. that field sucks. one viewer write, he's exactly right and i'm a lifelong skins fan. i have seen high school fields in better condition. and another viewer chimed in saying, you think he would get a haircut. you can log on any time by going to wusa9 facebook page. he led the ravens to their first super bowl win in 2000. he resides in baltimore and now is a tv analyst. he has been keeping track of his team. i wanted to see and get his thoughts on how his former team is doing. here's a little bit of that

from today. >> what makes this year so special for this team? >> we put together the defensive piece. the emergence of torrey smith and the vertical game. and dixon to give him the interimmediate. and ray to continue development. each of those pieces built a collective picture that you see right now that's pretty darn good. >> much different when you won the super bowl. ravens were known for that defense. now they have become very offensive minded as well. when you seen flacco improve over the last five years, he takes a lot of flak as well. what is it about him that you have been impressed with this season and his career so far? >> under that kind of criticism because when you do it on a team that has been as good as they have been, ultimately that focus is going to come back to you, even though as evidence by last year's championship game, it certainly wasn't joe flacco

that kept them out of the super bowl, but that criticism comes until you get there. now he's there. and that should remove a little bit of that burden of credentials for him. >> now you coached ray. it is his final game. what has he done to change the game of football? >> well, he defined the position going forward in terms of versatility, the pass, and commitment you need. i'm not one for putting labels on players at this position or that. but when you talk about the greatest defensive players of all time, if you don't include ray lewis in the discussion, then you are flat wrong. >> back out live now, remember we will be here all week long from new orleans, bringing you the greatest excitement from super bowl 47. for now we are live in front of the superdome in new orleans, 9news will return ri

that is all for now. we'll be back at 11:00 along with anita brikman and topper shutt. don't forget, log on any time to wusa9.com. bye bye.

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